التعاملات القضائية لأهل الذمة في القدس المملوكية في ضوء وثائق الحرم القدسي

Abstract

This study deals with the judiciary transactions of the Jewish and Christian minorities in Jerusalem through the Ḥaram Sarīf documents. These transactions include: inheritance documents specifying the heirs, probate inventories, sale contracts, marriage and repudiation contracts, and some specific litigations. Thus they cover a large part of the social and economic life of the non-Muslim in Jerusalem at that time. They shed light on the extent of coexistence between these minorities and the Islamic society. The article includes the edition of an unpublished document from the Ḥaram Sarīf, no. 330, dated 795/1393, related to a Christian named Yaʿqūb al-Naṣrānī. The document is a double one, with a testimony on the transfer of a deceased’s property to the Bayt al-māl on the recto, and on the verso the certification of the validity of that testimony.